Assignment:
Instructions:
1- Select one article that relates to an economic subject. The article should be long enough to allow you to complete this assignment. However, there is no minimal (or maximum) length to the article that you select. You can also select a small portion of a book if you want.
To help you, I include some potential articles here (but feel free to choose a different one if you want). Unfortunately, you cannot pick an article on the minimum wage since I've already presented an example using such an article (You can discuss with me, if you think your discussion would be different from mine).
a. Proposed Article 1: Empty Shelves in Venezuela
Things you should consider: What is going on in Venezuela? What kind of policies is the government using?
What is the impact of such a policy from an economic point of view (Use graphs to help you answer)?
b. Proposed Article 2: Trump's Tariffs
Things you should consider: What is a tariff? How do they affect the economy? Who benefits and who suffers from tariffs (Use graphs to help you answer)?
c. Proposed Article 3: Carbon Tax
Things to you should consider: What is a Carbon tax? What kind of market failure is the tax trying to address? What is the impact of not having a tax from an economic point of view (Use graphs to help you answer)?
Once you selected an article, you should:
a. Summarize the article in roughly 0.5 to 1.5 pages (Line Spacing 1.5 lines).
b. Explain some of the economic concepts that the article is presenting using the material seen in class in roughly 1 to 2 pages. (Graphs do not count towards the number of required pages.)
Francis Michaud
Assignment
2- Presentation: Your assignment should look professional. It should include:
a. A title page (with Instructor name, Course name, Institution name, your name, date and assignment name).
b. Make sure that you proofread the document. Some mistakes are acceptable, but mistakes in every sentences are not.
c. A header at the bottom of each page with your name and the assignment name.
d. A bibliography with at least 2 references used to complete the assignment.
3- The assignment will be submitted no later than November 28th, 2019 at the beginning of class. Feel free to submit your assignment at any time before this date if it is completed. An assignment that is submitted pass the above mentioned deadline will be penalized at a rate of 10% per day, starting immediately after the beginning of class.
4- If points 1, 2 or 3 above are not respected, in part or in full, the instructor reserves the right to refuse your assignment. Furthermore, you should ask yourself this basic question: "Would Francis submit a report that looks like this to his boss?" If the answer to this very simple question is "No" your assignment will not be accepted.
a. If the instructor refuses your document, it will be returned to you within 48 hours of submission. You will forfeit 20% of the full mark on the assignment and will be given 72 hours to submit an acceptable copy of your assignment.
b. If this second submission is of unacceptable quality, it will not be graded and you will be awarded 0% on your assignment for Econ-103.